The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-21
THE ASSOCIATION GAMES
Winnings by the Cincinnati, st. Louis.
Baltimore and Brooklyn Teams.
The Referee System Proposed to Correct the
Errors of Umpires-A Rule of Discipline
Enforced in the Home Nine--Notes.
The American Association.

CINCINNATI Ia: CLEVELAND. b.
CINCINNATI, April 20-About 1000 people
saw the home club beat the Clevelands to-day in
game characterized by free hitting and rather
loose fielding Both pitchers were wild. but the
Cincinnatis punched their hits while the visitors
scattered theirs Score:
Cincinnati ---.--.--.2 o Ola
Cleveland. -------.1 3 o O 0 l l.
Earned runs-Cincinnati. 6; Cleveland, 3. Two
nelly, Carpenter, Nicol Toy. McPhee. Home run
aFenneily First base on balls-of Shea, 8: of
Cleveland. q Passed bals-Connor, 2: Reipschlager,
i. Wild pitches-Shea, 2. Base hits-Cincinnati.
81; Cleveland. IA. Errors Cincinnati, 81 Cleveland
5. Time, two hours. Umpire-Cuthbert.
ST. LOUIS, 8; LOUISVILLE, g.
LOUISVILLE, KY, April 2O.-The St. Louis
Browns both out battei and out-felded the
Louisviles to-day, winning very interesting
contest Kerins's two errors in the first inning
proved costly to the home club The fine work
of Gleason at short and of Browning and Col
Inns in the outfield were features of the game
There were about $500 people present. Score:
St. Louis. d l Q l % "a
Earned runs-Louisve. 3; st. Louis, 8. Two
base hits-Wolf Collins, O'Neill, WEIGH Robinson
Three-base ht-Werrick Passed ball-Bushong, 1.
First base on balls-Robinson, Reccius and Hecker
Latham and Cook
BALTIMORE, s; ATHLETIC, 2.
BALTIMORE, April 2O.-Kilroy again too
much for the Athletic batsmen. and the Balti-
more team won to-day's game with comparative
It was too dark to see the ball in the ninth
inning and the visitors had four runs to their
credit. which they made by battery errors. but
the umpire called the game back an inning.
Score:
Baltimore .....O o 2 Is
Athletic Commencement o o o 0 o.
Earned runs-Baltimore. 4. Twobase hit-Burns
Three-base hits-Grif6n. Burns. First base on balls
OFF kilroy. 2; off Atkisson g. Base hitsoBalti-
more Is; Athletic. f. Errors-Baltimore, 2; Ath-
letic 8. Umpire-knight.
BROOKLYN r. METROPOLITAN, g.
NEW YORK, April 2O.-Abous four thousand
persons saw the game at Washington Park,
Brooklyn, to-day. between the Brooklyn and
Metropolitan clubs The home team outplayed
the visitors at every point. and won with ease.
Mays was sick and pitched wildly and ineffect-
lively and Esterbrook and Meister played like
school-boys. Donohue partly relieved the dis
gust that the playing of the Metropolitans other
wise occasioned He caught in brilliant form.
| The Metropolitans showed poor team work
| generally. and appeared to need a thorough
| overhauling Score:
Nets .....--.-.O O 0 o 1 O. 3
Earned runs-Brooklyn, I; Metropolitans, l. Two
base hits. OBrien. Three base hts-Orr, =. Base
| hirs-Brooklyn. 90 Metropotans 10. Errors
Brooklyn, l; Metropotans 8. First base on balls
Brooklyn, 13; Metropolitans, 10. Umpire-McQuade.
The Referee System.
| Base Ball Gazette.
The fact that Umpire McQuade, in the Brook
| lyn-Metropoiitan game. last Saturday, had two
| very questionable decisions to make at second
| base. both of which divided the crowd of specta
| tors in opinion, goes to show the need of the
| adoption of the referee system. 1t was tried in
| the second Chicago-St Louis game last fall, and
| worked spendidly. The referee reversed -four
| erroneous decisions made by Quest and McQuade
all on base plays, and in every case it turned out
| plain one. He had twice the chance to see the
| play plainly than had either of the
| umpires behind the batsman In this
game the referee-John Kelly-stood
back of the basemen- and moved around
| with the base-runner, that it was impossible
| for him to miss seeing play just it occurred
| The baseman in every instance was on the op
| posite side of the base-runner from the referee,
| whereas the baseman invariably between
the umpire and base-runner. Ex-umpire John
Kelly, as well as Captains Arson and Comiskey
| are warm advocates of this plan. The
referee alone would have to travel around from
| place to place, as the umplres now do, and the
two umpires could very well be taken from thu
| city in which the game was played. Such mis-
takes as McQuade made. if they were mistakes
| will occur to the best umpires the land-ant
| he certainly is one of them. The only remed,
lies in the adoption of the referee system.